My husband and I bought a 50+ year old house a little over three years ago. We have a 200 square foot addition on the back that was built improperly by a previous owner. It has a beautiful brick fireplace in it, but the rest of the room’s structure is failing because of faulty construction. So we are hiring a contractor to tear the room down to the bare concrete slab, which used to be the patio (the room was never tied in to the original house, so not much will have to be done). We are thinking of saving the fireplace and hearth though, and use it as a freestanding outdoor fireplace since it is just too nice too destroy. I think that since we are losing value on our home by having to demo the room then maybe we can at least gain some by saving the big brick fireplace. I want to build a pergola around it and the patio to maximize our yard/patio potential (with an outdoor chandalier handing down from the pergola, maybe adding some flowers and vines growing up the top). Any advice or information on what to expect when making the fireplace an outdoor one would be appreciated. Thanks!
*By the way, it is a wood-burning fireplace, with gas connection but the gas is capped off.
I think you can just tear down the badly built room and use the concrete slab as a patio once more. Without seeing this fireplace, it’s hard to say if it will need any changes. Probably not. My guess is that you can just use it as it is.
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